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Bloggers Versus Billionaire
Roger Whittaker writes "An interesting case in England is pitting the combined power of multiple bloggers against an Uzbek billionaire. The bloggers are supporting the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, who has written a book about what happened there after the fall of Communism. The book is apparently unflattering in the extreme to oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who has engaged the law firm Schillings (which seems to specialize in getting unfavorable Web content removed for rich clients). Their threats have led to the removal of Murray's blog site by his hosting company Fasthosts. But a large number of bloggers have taken up Murray's cause, and the content that caused the original complaint, and links to it, have now sprung up in a very large number of places. The Internet still seems to regard censorship as damage and route around it."
Looks like Borat was right about Uzbekistan
It looks harmless enough, but if you try to take information away from it, it explodes in your face.
We asked Murray if he intends to stay on Usmanov's back. He replied: "There is room on Usmanov's back for an awful lot of people. You could get even more on his stomach, and possibly lose some under the overlap of his chins."
We think that's a "yes".
UK ambassador to asshole Uzbekistan? Wo wi wow wow. I think someone has already done a comprehensive documentary on the subject
We asked Murray if he intends to stay on Usmanov's back. He replied: "There is room on Usmanov's back for an awful lot of people. You could get even more on his stomach, and possibly lose some under the overlap of his chins."
We think that's a "yes".
but isn't a Billionaire in Britian someone with 1e12 (a million millions) pounds. That is, over 2 trillion US dollars?
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This is the kind of thing perpetrate by evil nitwits Uzbekistan, who as everybody know, is very nosey people with a bone in middle of their brain.
Of course all this is all because Usmanov has recently bought up a load of shares and his vast, blubbery shadow is being cast over North London as he circles Arsenal Football Club - even the club chairman has today spoken out today over concerns about how he amassed his fortune. Usmanov has said publicly that he intends to gain a "blocking stake" in the club. Football fans can be ALMOST as devout as Apple fanboys ;)
He'll soon rebound from this scandal with a book deal, music contract, perfume and fashion line, and will drive around with Britney while getting "accidentally" photographed without his panties.
[...] to remind you that the Net's underlying protocols were designed to survive WWIII.
This is an old canard; stop putting the cart before the horse. The internet was designed to enable effective and economical sharing of computational resources. This necessarily included the capability to share ASCII-Art renderings of Playboy pinups. In order to preserve the capabilities against censors, it had to develop the ability to withstand a potential WWIII nuclear exchange as an inevitable byproduct of the initial design requirement of effective and economical resource sharing. (Nixon really didn't get along well with Hef.)
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
But, as this rather silly blogger is about to find out, when combining triangles to make the Diamond of Pantheos he transforms into Mecha-Usmanov
Robert Smith is already on a plane to Uzbekistan.
But, as a North Londoner with my roots in Hornsey, the football team I am not interested in is Tottenham. For the uninstructed, New York is the greatest Jewish city in the World, and Tottenham is the greatest Jewish football team (YMMV). So, of course, what I really want to happen is for Arsenal to be bought by an oligarch, and then for Putin's successor to kidnap the entire crew of former Soviet exiles living in London, and return them so the Russian IRS can ask them questions about where the money came from.
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Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
Litigious and tortoise. Makes perfect sense.
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